Bech Spring Dolomite (image)

Caption

This is a late Precambrian carbonate outcropping at south end of Death Valley, California. Carbon isotopes in these layers bear evidence of the first extensive greening of the Earth.

Credit

L.P. Knauth, Arizona State University

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